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Where the heck is General Grievous

Do any of you guys know the story behind Grievous? He was announced Last year at the same time Fett was announced. I would've thought we would have a preorder for the general by now but not a peep. Any news on this figure?

No, I was just talking to someone on that the other day, too. If I were a bettin' man, I'd wager that they've had trouble in the materials department and have been trying to work out those kinks. I'd base that on the fact that the prototype they brought to Comic-Con last year wilted a little, and quickly. Can't ask people to spend $200+ on something that deforms right out of the box. I'd further bet we get details on preorder in 9 days when Sideshow takes part in the SW Collectibles panel.

I just checked, the tag last year said he was to ship Q1 of 2012, which was months ago obviously, but he was also a prototype pending licensor approval, so maybe Lucasfilm has held up the works.

Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.

Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.

The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.

I am not getting him, $250 and a non-refundable deposit is just as insane here as it is on Vader. These are as expensive as Premium Format now, only minus the whole "premium" part, or at least a REASONABLE justification for these insanely high prices.

Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.

Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.

The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.

I am very delicate with items I receive for this price. I think it's for the best. His (closed-2) arms are not as easily articulated as would be convenient, but you CAN get them into great poses.

I am not going to display him with 4 arms, so I didn't try those out and left them in his box. The loose lightsaber hilts are magnetic.

Not sure why.

But they fit in the pockets of his robe and it looks awesome. But I kind of wish they were not magnetic.

The blades in the ignited lightsbers are non-removeable. I wish they gave you more than 4 of the unlit hilts, 6 would have been better to fill every pocket - but I guess they wanted to leave room for Anakin's and Obi-Wan's when Grievous briefly had possession of them.

The figure is huge and towers over Anakin and Obi-Wan btw.

MODS - this thread needs "General Grievous" by name added to the title so people know what the heck the thread is about.

Meanwhile, I really hope they make the Magna Droid body guard figure. I'll buy 2 to accompany Grievous. I think 2 can be squeezed in with him on an IKEA detolf display case shelf. Grievous with the 4 arms holding lightsabers probably won't fit. I'm going to display my smaller Hasbro version in a different case fighting my SSC Obi-Wan from ROTS.

I haven't bought much Star Wars lately, but I'm very satisfied with this purchase!

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I just wanted the lightsabers to stand straight up in the General's pockets.

However, changing the positions of the magnets' polarities will not result in every lightsaber going in a pocket with the blade emitter down - which is presumably how you'd safely store them. Cut off a prosthetic leg or your head? Uh - not the head please.

Meanwhile, the box is pretty big and heavy. A lot went in to decorated layered packaging. But I never really paid much attention to what I paid for it.

I wanted it. Didn't really care about the price and have barely bought any Star Wars due to lack of items that interest me.

If I usually spend a few thousand on toys annually, spending less than $500 (a lot less than $500 with Amazon's Slave-One included) hasn't really concerned me.

This is how I'd justify spending $25 per Cliegg Lars figure if it were a Brian's Toys Exclusive like Jocasta Nu was.

Moreover, why I'd pay like $350 for a Jabba's Sailbarge for the 3 3/4" figures.

Maybe Jabba's barge will be in Rebels and Hasbro makes it after all?

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